Curtain fixture



S. C. HILLS. QURTMN FIXTURE. APPLICATION mm APILZB. 1921.

9% 2 9 1 4 2 u c 0 m n m P Patented Get. 24, I92.

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SIDNEY C. HILLS, 0F TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE TURNER 8:;

SEYMOUR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF TORItINGTON, CONNECTICUT, A COR-FOBATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CURTAIN rrx'rotan.

Application filed April 28;

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY C. I'IILLS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Torrington, county of Litohfield, State of Connecticut, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Curtain Fixtures,

of which the following is a full clear, and

exact description.

My invention relates to curtain fixtures and has for its object toprovide a simple and efficient fixture of the Hat rod type in whichinserts are employed in a new and eiiicient way for mounting the rods insockets. It further has for its object to produce a new and improvedsocket for receiving a portion of such an insert.

The following is a description of an em bodiment of my invention,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 shows on a reduced scale a curtain fixture embodying myinvention, the same being attached to the frame of a window;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the same partly in section;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same partly in section on the lineFig.2;

Fig. 4 shows an unformed blank from which the socket is made; and

Fig. 5 shows a section on the line 5--5, Fig. 2.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 is the window frame. 2-2and 33' are telescoping sections of rods of the flattened type, havingtheir ends curved at 4-4:. Each of these curved ends contains a wire 5,termed an insert, which is secured in place by the wrapping of the metalforming the telescoping sections around the same in the ordinary manner.These inserts have portions 6 at the ends of the sections 2-2 which areflattened so as to lie in planes at right angles to the axes of theadjacent portions of the curved sections, the flattened portions 6 beingof a greater width than the diameter of the unflattened portions of theinserts. The legs of the inserts are provided on their inner sides withrecesses 55' into which the metal of the body portions 3 and 4 is forcedso as to hold the inserts in place.

The socket plates 7 are bent so as to have a raised central portion 8,in the crown of which thereare one or more vertical slots 9 whose endsterminate in enlarged portions i921; serial No. team.

10, these enlarged portions being located between the crown 8 and thebase of the plate so as to be out of alinement with the metalconstituting the crown 8 and in alinement with one another. The base ofthe socket comprises ears which are provided with perforations forsecuring the socket in place.

The socket plate before it is bent is shown in Fig. 41,9 being thenarrower portion of the slot and 10-10 being the enlarged openings inwhich it terminates. When this blank is bent up so as to produce thecrown 8, the flattened portion 6 can be passed through the openingscorresponding to the portions 1010 so that the end of the bracket isfirmly supported thereby. In

order to permit this the width of the slot 9 is made at least equal tothe diameter of the round portions of the insert.

In order to limit the downward movement of the portion 6, stops 11 areprovided, the same being formed by turning outwardly the integral tangsshown in Fig. 4:.

Preferably I make theiinserts in U-form, as shown in Fig. 5, one leg ofthe U being embraced by the upper portion of a section 2--2 and theother leg being embraced by the lower portion of such section.

As will be evident to those skilled in the art, my invention permits ofvarious moditications without departing from the spirit thereof or thescope of the appended claims.

WVhat I claim is:

1. In a curtain fixture, the combination of a vertically extendingflattened rod, in-

serts in the ends .of said rod, said inserts and arranged substantiallyat right anglesto the remaining portion, of the rod, inserts in the endsof said rod. said inserts having vertical portions in line with the endsof said rod and flattened so as to lie in planes at right angles to theaxes of said end por tions, and socket members each having a portionarranged substantially parallel with the base having a vertical slotcapable of receiving said member through the upper end thereof to holdsaid end of the rod in place by engagement of said lateral projectionsWith the inner side of said raised portion, and a stop located belowsaid slot for engagement With the lower end of said U- shaped member.

SIDNEY C. HILLS.

